FRC Technical Questions

Blog Date:

Monday, January 21, 2013 - 11:46

The FIRST Forums, which we’ve used in the past for technical questions, is currently only accepting new users manually. Although all posts are viewable without logging in, new users will need to submit a request to frcteams@usfirst.org and request an account. This restriction is temporary, but necessary to remedy larger issues. The resolution for this issue isn’t immediate so, at least for this season, we’re going to transition technical questions from the FIRST Forums to the Q&A system created by Quextit.

An “FRC Technical” category has been added to the top of the Supplier list. This is the new place for all teams to ask technical questions for items and implementations specific to FRC. Any user can create an account and submit questions. We ask that all questions are clear, specific, respectful, and concise.

Are there any other suppliers for flex hubs and gears? I have been waiting over two weeks for Andymark to have supplies on new items. There needs to be additional ways to get parts rather than 98% from Andymark. It is becoming quite obvious of the monopoly of parts they have.

If you build your robot upward, will all of the upper levels of the robots have to stay in the parameters of the base of the robot, or may the go outside of it? (as in the part is stationary but it extends past the frame)

We are having a problem simply setting a digital output signal high on request. We are using Java and have the wheels working fine with the joysticks. We don't have any breakout boards just the ribbbon cable from the DIO cRIO module (slot 2) to the sidecar. What class/method should be used and which pins will go it be associated to?